Famous Greek place Athenian leaders love (5)
I believe the answer is:
plato
'famous greek' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'athenian leaders love' is the wordplay.
'athenian leaders' becomes 'plat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'plat'+'o'='PLATO'
'place' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for plato that I've seen before include "Teacher of Aristotle, pupil of Socrates" , "Greek character" , "Greek philosopher (The Republic)" , "Moon crater named after Greek philosopher" , "Ancient Greek philosopher" .)